twitcher

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtwɪt͡ʃə/|[ˈtʰwɪt͡ʃə]    美 /ˈtwɪt͡ʃə/|[ˈtʰwɪt͡ʃə]|/ˈtwɪt͡ʃɚ/|[ˈtʰwɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈtʰwɪt͡ʃɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that twitches.
  2. An avid birdwatcher who travels long distances to see rare species, or to add a new species to their personal list; a birder who goes on twitches.
    — It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).

词形变化

twitchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
curtain twitcher

词源

From twitch + -er. The birdwatching sense first recorded in 1970 and recalled as being in use in 1968; claimed by R.E. Emmett to have arisen in 1950s Britain in reference to birder Howard Medhurst who often arrived at rare‑bird sites shivering after riding pillion on Emmett's motorcycle.
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